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Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 10:35 pm
by Seriously Unserious
Here's a trailer for a TV miniseries I would've like to have seen when it first aired: Quest for the Sea.
I saw all the earlier series by the same producers but missed that one.

Their other productions started with Pioneer Quest: A Year In the Real West, followed by Quest for the Bay, and finally Klondike: Quest for Gold

I'd almost forgotten about these gems in recreating history, until I stumbled across the Quest for the Sea trailer. For anyone who hasn't seen these series, I'd definitely recommend them.

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:36 am
by Gambit37
Woooo, very cool: Lightning filmed at 7207 frames a second!

I love how you can see the stroke actually branching out in slow-mo. Awesome stuff :-)

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120723.html

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 9:08 am
by Seriously Unserious
I love it! Thanks for posting that, gambit.

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 11:47 am
by Gambit37
This is pretty cool too: Water flowing in a sine wave pattern!

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/03/t ... sine-wave/

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 11:11 pm
by Gambit37
Wow, I love stuff life this: Student asks to play piano for Billy Joel, who agrees and sings along:
http://boingboing.net/2013/03/12/colleg ... no-wh.html

Even if you don't like this sort music, it's worth a watch :)

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 9:03 am
by MasterWuuf
Gambit37 wrote:Wow, I love stuff life this: Student asks to play pianio for Billy Joel, who agrees and sings along:
http://boingboing.net/2013/03/12/colleg ... no-wh.html

Even if you don't like this sort music, it's worth a watch :)
Billie can still sing. Enjoyed it. Thanks.

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:08 am
by Gambit37
£49,000 to spare? Why not buy the first 10 original impressions of "The Hobbit"?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/J-R-R-Tolkien ... 1080983222

!!!!

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:20 am
by terkio
The Hobbit.
Beleive me or not, I love heroic fantasy, however "Bolbit the hobo" books and movies are boring me to the death.

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 5:34 am
by Bit
MasterWuuf wrote:
Gambit37 wrote:Wow, I love stuff life this: Student asks to play pianio for Billy Joel, who agrees and sings along:
http://boingboing.net/2013/03/12/colleg ... no-wh.html

Even if you don't like this sort music, it's worth a watch :)
Billie can still sing. Enjoyed it. Thanks.
Good taste Wuufy!

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 7:25 am
by Seriously Unserious
Gambit37 wrote:Wow, I love stuff life this: Student asks to play piano for Billy Joel, who agrees and sings along:
http://boingboing.net/2013/03/12/colleg ... no-wh.html

Even if you don't like this sort music, it's worth a watch :)
I agree with bit's post above. I hadn't heard much Billy Joel before that but from watching that video, thanks gambit for posting that.

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 11:56 am
by linflas
Nowadays, most of PC makers aim to put everything in screen, but why not mixing motherboard and keyboard instead ?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/505 ... puter-case

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 12:14 pm
by Gambit37
That design was cool back in the day but not sure why you'd want it in a modern machine. My desk space is valuable!

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:02 pm
by MasterWuuf
linflas wrote:Nowadays, most of PC makers aim to put everything in screen, but why not mixing motherboard and keyboard instead ?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/505 ... puter-case
Having owned three or four of the Atari ST computers, I liked the look of it.

Still, it looks like it's very limited at the very start, given the size of power supply suggested.

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:09 pm
by Gambit37
Hmmm, well this is as good a reason as any to self-publish your game and eschew those App stores:

"Sweatshop HD is the latest victim in Apple's war on serious games"

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPad/Swe ... sp?c=49468

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 10:45 pm
by Gambit37
Russian Photographers Secretly Climb The Great Pyramid Of Giza, Document The Experience With Crazy Photos

http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dy ... zy-photos/

I can't condone their behaviour, it was foolish and self-entitled, but man: I got a frisson of excitement seeing those views. And despite the pyramids eroding at an alarming rate, they are one of the few man-made structures that may still be here in 10,000 years which probably isn't the same you can say about humans at the rate we're going...

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 11:10 pm
by beowuuf
Indeed, there's something exciting about having captured that.

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 12:16 am
by MasterWuuf
beowuuf wrote:Indeed, there's something exciting about having captured that.
An amazing accomplishment (the building of the pyramids). The pictures did the same for me, Beo.

Those ornery little photographers! :wink:

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:05 pm
by beowuuf
Hey guys, did to know if you type 'do a barrel roll' in Google search the screen actually does a barrel roll? And if you type 'zerg rush' then your screen gets rushed by zerg-like google 'o's that destroy all your search results? Pretty wild!

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:27 pm
by Gambit37
I knew the barrell roll one, but not the zerg rush.... man, that's crazy. Google have too much money and too much time on their hands... !

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:45 pm
by Ameena
Rofl that's cool - and you can attack the Os as well by clicking on them!

Cave story

Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 3:26 am
by terkio

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:50 am
by Gambit37

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 4:15 am
by MasterWuuf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSm9DDxQv8E

Did you ever hear the voice of Darth...before they did the 'voice over' with James Earl Jones?

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:33 am
by Ser Xav
You've probably all seen this already, but this really tickled my rpg-bone. Love it - great on the go on a phone.

http://www.legendsofyore.com/

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 3:40 pm
by zoom

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:14 pm
by Gambit37
This is the coworker who’s never happy with any assignment (GIF - warning: curse words).
http://thisadvertisinglife.tumblr.com/p ... y-with-any

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 1:02 am
by Ameena
Rofl that's cute and funny :D.

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 6:20 pm
by beowuuf

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 11:15 pm
by zoom
I would suggest a wand or warcry;)

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web

Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 12:48 am
by terkio
+1.